Congressman Rob Bishop on public lands

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Congressman Rob Bishop addressed public lands as a part of Sutherland’s 2018 Congressional Event Series. Below is a collection of live tweets from the event. For a full recording, the speech and panel discussions were streamed live via Facebook.

TODAY: @RobBishopUT “How a government views property is a window to the soul of that government.”

TODAY: @RobBishopUT on navigating the politics to take up new policy measures: The partisan divide is not as significant as the geological divide. Those of us in the West are much more interested in these positions. #utpol#SutherlandEvents

TODAY: On a panel discussion on public lands, Wade Garrett, director of public policy at the Utah Farm Bureau, said, “Smokey the Bear was another government campaign gone wrong.” #utpol#SutherlandEvents

TODAY: In a public lands discussion on moving the @BLMNational to the West, Wade Garrett said, “There are people in the BLM who make decisions for the West who have never even been to the West.” #utpol#SutherlandEvents